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1 and 1 · Water twice

Feng ShuiEn français1 et 1 · L’eau deux fois

The 1 White as both mountain and water star: water on water, the star of learning and journeys doubled, timely again in Period 9.

Meaning

Water doubled is the hexagram Kan, the abysmal, water that keeps flowing through every hollow, which the Book of Changes reads as a sincerity that holds on. The classics hear in it a current of study and travel; timely in Period 9, it is read now as a current that carries.

The 1 White twice, water on water: the classics read wisdom, study and journeys. In season, recognition through knowledge and news from afar; out of season, plans that drift, and a home people pass through more than they settle in.

In practice

  • In a home’s chart: a palace whose mountain star and water star are both the 1 holds this pairing; the palace’s reading names it and gives the text above, then how the two phases meet and which face applies.
  • The 1 as both mountain and water star: mountain star and water star share their phase, water: what holds the people of the home and what flows in pull the same way.
  • In Period 9 (2024–2043), the 1 is in season: read “in season”, for the people of the home and for what comes in.

Correspondences

  • 1 White starThe first of the nine stars, Water and the trigram Kan, at home in the north: study, careers and journeys, and timely again in Period 9.
  • Pairs of starsThe 45 meetings of a mountain star and a water star in one palace of a Flying Star chart, each with the reading the classics give it, in season and out.
  • WaterThe phase of depth, rest and stored strength, of winter and the north: still on the surface, moving underneath, preparing the next spring.
  • Flying Star chartA home’s chart in the Flying Stars: nine palaces, each with a mountain star, a water star and a period star, cast from the home’s period and facing.

Sources

  • Zi Bai Jue (Verse of the Purple and White), Xuan Kong school
  • Xuan Kong Mi Zhi (Secret Meaning of the Profound Void), Xuan Kong school
  • Fei Xing Fu (Rhapsody of the Flying Stars), Xuan Kong school
  • Shen Zhureng, Shen shi Xuankong xue, published after 1906